Retro Diary – PS2 day!

Friday, May 5th, 2017

I’v decided to do this quick retro diary, because today was a fairly interesting day.

My brother asked me if I can set a console up so he can play a Tony Hawk game, he was specifically wanting to play the Underground games, which I only had on PC in my room, so I looked up in the attic to see if I had the games on anything else, and as it turns out, I still have a copy of the game on PS2, so we decided to set the PS2 up in the sitting room, got the controllers and memory cards, and we were off!

My brother pretty much played Tony Hawk’s Underground for the majority of the day,

I have a component cable for my PS2, which gives the best picture you can get with the PS2, and… to be frank… THUG looks pretty awful on it, the resolution was really low and there was no anti-aliasing, everything was super-jagged…

Still, it matters not how it looks, but how it plays, and the game is just as fun now as it was back then!

My sister came in at some point and went on our laptop, never touched her smartphone, so it was almost like a mini-2000s-throwback party…ish!

Me and my brother has a fairly interesting conversation of what defined the 2000s, because from my point of view, it was half the 90s, the other half what became the 2010s.

The only things we could come up with that was very 2000s were the Tony Hawk games, System of a Down, and Nu Metal music in general…

It’s kind of depressing how pretty much the span of time where so much happened in the consumer front has ended, the decade from the 1940s to the early 2000s were so prolific and so much happened, that it seemed like an eternity from one end to the other.

Of course, every decade was very important, but it’s like now, it’s all slowed down, and time goes faster for us because not as much happens, like as things were before. It’s kind of sad, really.

My brother played through the game all the way to Moscow, and halfway through it all, he asked if I wanted to get another controller and play a 2-player game, so we decided on Smackdown vs. Raw 2011.

The game didn’t look as bad on the TV, and I still to this day think it looks really impressive for a PS2 game!

We played 2 matches, both of which he won… grr!

We were going to watch some Chucklevision on DVD, but we were all too tried after all of it, so we just went to our beds…